under no circumstances should we allow 'permalance' to become a thing

Next time your management asks you to stack-rank your team, buy a small electrical motor assembly kit, drop it on their desk, and ask them to rank the components by importance/performance.

This is definitely the kind of thing businesses are eager to use AI to do, and I would simply ask how much people currently like call centers, which are heavily automated already and make it nearly impossible to reach a human, and whether they want that to be even more the case

People who watch *the exact same* video of a protest often come to radically different conclusions.

People's views of protestors and the police depend on the congruence of the protestors’ positions with the subjects’ own worldview jstor.org/stable/41511108

oh great

I really wanna understand how this can be true, yet Amazon has a “strive to be the earth’s best employer” leadership principle?

Demonstrates that at least one LP is in fact simply words on a page. How many others are?

Some people might know that Amazon sued me after I had left AWS and later went to Google Cloud. cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws…. I cannot be happier to see the FTC ruling to ban non-competes in the US. 'Noncompete clauses violate a 110-year-old law that prohibits unfair methods of…

Biden Labor Department just issued final rule to extend overtime pay to millions more workers, by preventing companies from exempting employees unless they make (starting next year) at least $58,656 a year dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f…

Huge news for anyone working in tech in the US.

Noncompetes are now banned: not just in California (like before), but nationwide. Very, very relevant for anyone at Amazon (which is the Big Tech that has enforced noncompetes even for low-level engineering positions).

'We are proud to partner with nine airports across California — creating hundreds of jobs, sharing more than $13 million in annual revenue with our California airport partners and serving nearly 1 million Californians'

33 words and none are 'safety'

cbsnews.com/amp/news/airpo…

Oohh, I like this partial quote from Gary Marcus: [Future AI systems will need to be] structured differently, in which facts are first-class citizens, rather than something you hope you might get for free with enough data.

Wild to me how so many people in tech can see that an artificial general intelligence would have to be one of the most complex entities in existence, but dismiss other humans, general intelligences that exist right now, as boring and barely worth understanding better.

In general, things like this that *can* be accomplished through IaC are even better when made proper service-side resources

In a victory for labor, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz, California vote overwhelmingly—33 to 12—in favor of unionizing

It's the nation's 10th unionized REI store, but not one of them has a union contract even though the first one (in Manhattan) unionized over 2 years ago

This old Alexa-themed poorly drawn lines is still relevant for so many proposed Gen AI use cases